Kindergarten

So proud of our kinders! Their writing routines & practice make stronger writers every day!

Artwork

Over the weekend some of our students had their artwork serve as inspiration for choreographers at The Color Wheel Project. Their artwork was displayed during the performance so everyone in attendance could see the inspiration behind the dance.

Coding with Ipads

Coding spheros with iPads, learning to calibrate and drive with accuracy, and changing colors is so much fun when we get to do it with friends!

Apple Store

Columbine Elementary School has been recognized by Apple as a distinguished school for inspiring, imagining, and impacting teaching and learning through continuous innovation.

2nd Graders

After building individual and partner towers, students collaborated, adjusted their design, and tested a tall tower strong enough to safely hold a thin. heavy object with great success!

5th Grade

Fifth graders were in deep thought with evaluating and calculating a morning math problem with partners.

Reading buddies

Fourth graders and second graders are reading buddies this year and recently shared their own writing with each other. We love seeing how much they learn from one another!

Music

Learning music patterns, rhythms, and energy with Drums Alive is so much fun! Students loved drumming to match each musical style!

Hands-on

Hands-on engineering and collaboration is a great way for our students to problem solve and work together!

ParentSquare: Our New District Communication Tool

St. Vrain Valley Schools will begin using ParentSquare, a new district communication tool that allows families to receive notifications based on their preferences. St. Vrain’s communications team will pilot ParentSquare for the remainder of the school year with the plan to expand access to schools at the start of the new school year. We’re excited […]

Spirit week

To our school families, don’t forget that next week is Spirit Week at school. We can’t wait to see the fun our students and staff have with this!

St. Vrain Valley Celebrates First-ever Future Ready Festival

Over two thousand community members came together on Saturday, March 7, for St. Vrain Valley Schools’ first-ever Future Ready Festival at Silver Creek High School. Families and community members filled the campus throughout the afternoon, engaging with educators, asking questions, and exploring innovative programs and opportunities available across the district. The festival featured Advantage Zones […]

Golden Cougar

This week we announced our school’s monthly winner of the Golden Cougar. Congratulations to Ms. Schafer’s fifth grade class for winning the Golden Cougar! We’ll find out the next winner of the Golden Cougar in April.

Teacher of the year 2025/2026

We are so excited to announce Columbine Elementary School’s amazing 2026 Teacher of the Year! Congratulations to Mrs. Morison!

Cafecito

To our school families-It’s almost time for our March Cafecito! Please join us this Friday, March. 6 at 8:45am in the school library. We hope to see you for a chance to learn and connect together!

Kinder engineers

Kinder students used magnetic cubes to design and build tall towers, dream houses, and more!

Specials

Columbine Families: Save the Date! A week from today, on March 5 at 4:30pm, is our Specials Night for 1st and 3rd graders. We hope to see you here as we showcase what our 1st and 3rd grade students have been learning in specials!

1st Grade

Our first grade students had such a fun field trip this past Friday!

3rd Graders

Our 3rd grade book club group taking turns reading out loud. Look at their organized folders and dictionaries. Giggles confirm that they are immersed in the joy of reading.

Thank you

2nd Graders

So many fun learning opportunities with technology happen at our school! Our 2nd graders used iPads to drive Spheros for a quick game of bowling!

Marble Runs

In extended music class, 5th grade students began the planning process to make musical marble runs. Each group will use what they know about the elements of music to represent a section of the Allegro movement from Vivaldi’s composition Spring.

Sphero’s

Students used iPads to draw and code a Sphero path. We had an accuracy race to drive our sphero to our partner!